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Baldwin Peter <1956-> |
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Command and persuade : crime, law, and the state across history / / Peter Baldwin |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2021] |
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0-262-36149-3 |
0-262-36150-7 |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Crime - History |
Punishment - History |
Criminal law - History |
Criminal justice, Administration of - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-444) and index. |
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Introduction: Crime and the state through the ages -- Crime's ever-expanding universe -- Crime before the state -- Crime as a social problem -- The state as victim : treason -- Parallel justice -- Why punish? -- How to punish -- Moderating punishment -- Crimes of thought -- Obliged to be good -- From retribution to prevention -- The state as enforcer : from Polizei to police -- Conclusion: Still present after all these years. |
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"This history of crime and punishment spans 3000 years and multiple continents to reveal the larger patterns in how the state has maintained order and enforced law over the centuries"-- |
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UNINA9910779567403321 |
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Greenstein Fred I |
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Presidents and the dissolution of the Union : leadership style from Polk to Lincoln / / Fred I. Greenstein with Dale Anderson |
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Princeton : , : Princeton University Press, , [2013] |
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1-299-46481-5 |
1-4008-4641-2 |
9781400846412 q (ebook) |
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[Core Textbook] |
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1 online resource (199 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Presidents - United States - History - 19th century |
Presidents - United States |
Political leadership - United States |
United States Politics and government 1783-1865 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Presidential Difference in the Civil War Era -- Chapter 2. The Policy- Driven Political Style of James K. Polk -- Chapter 3. The Rough and Ready Leadership of Zachary Taylor -- Chapter 4. Millard Fillmore and the Compromise of 1850 -- Chapter 5. Franklin Pierce and the Kansas- Nebraska Act -- Chapter 6. The Disastrous Presidency of James Buchanan -- Chapter 7. Abraham Lincoln: Consummate Leader -- Chapter 8. What Difference Did the President Make? -- Appendix. Background on the Civil War Era Presidents -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his other acclaimed books about the American presidency, Fred Greenstein assesses the personal strengths and weaknesses of presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama. Here, he evaluates the leadership styles of the Civil War-era presidents. Using his trademark no-nonsense approach, Greenstein looks at the presidential qualities of James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James |
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Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. For each president, he provides a concise history of the man's life and presidency, and evaluates him in the areas of public communication, organizational capacity, political skill, policy vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. Greenstein sheds light on why Buchanan is justly ranked as perhaps the worst president in the nation's history, how Pierce helped set the stage for the collapse of the Union and the bloodiest war America had ever experienced, and why Lincoln is still considered the consummate American leader to this day. Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union reveals what enabled some of these presidents, like Lincoln and Polk, to meet the challenges of their times--and what caused others to fail. |
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